The Spark Within: Transformers (Various!XOC!)

Cogless Miners

"What's going on?" S-23 asked Elita worriedly, looking up at her as she held the spears.

Elita-one only shook her head. "An explosive turned off at the worst possible moment, now the cave is collapsing and Orion is taking his sweet time to get out!" She then quickly raised up her wrist to communicate with Orion, however, she was met with his voice quickly intercepting.

"Elita! Careful, there's something coming!" His voice shouted through the coms as both Elita-one and S-23 looked back at the cave to see a bright light.

With quick reaction time, Elita-one put her arms around S-23 and pulled her down from experiencing the harsh impact of the second explosion. The ground shook and trembled as some of the bots outside the cave weren't so lucky as the impact made them fly and hit themselves against the walls of the facility.

When the aftershocks of the explosion was done, Elita looked up before prompting S-23 to get up.

"Thank you." S-23 nodded her head gratefully as Elita patted her helm.

"No need to thank me, we must concentrate on Orion and his group."

As if he was called by name, in the dark cave, lit up by the dim lights of the shaking spears that struggled to hold the cave walls from closing in, Orion, D-16 and an injured bot, Jazz, were rushing towards the exit of the cave.

However, one of the spears' lights turned red, and so did the rest as they began to break.

With fear in her optics, S-23 quickly lifted up one of the spears in her arms and helped keep the cave walls from closing in, however, the spears weren't as durable as they were earlier, as they broke quicker.

At faster speeds, the femme bot continued to launch spears to help out the three in the cave, Elita-one followed in suit, helping out S-23 as she also launched spears.

S-23 threw the last spear as Orion and his group luckily came out of the cave by a thin screw.

The three fell onto the ground, panting as they struggled to get up, now helping out Jazz with his injured self, as other miner bots quickly picked him up and took him to the nearest medbay.

S-23 then rushed towards the two left behind. "You guys!" She then checked on them, circling them. "You worried me!"

The two stood up, and after S-23 finished ensuring they weren't too heavily hurt, Elita-one came in and began scolding Orion.

"Oh you! Breaking protocol and risking another bots' life!? You're bound to get me fired!" She yelled at him in anger.

Orion only tried to ease her stress. "No one's getting fired-"

As if by comedical relief, despite the actual disappointment for Elita-one, Darkwing flew down and landed right behind Elita-one.

"Elita-one, you're fired" His deep voice boomed within the facility, as Elita's expression went from anger to surprise as she quickly turned around.

"What!?" She stared at him in shock, but most of all, disappointment. "But!-"

Orion intercepted. "-Actually Darkwing, I'm the one who caused the disturbance, I should be the one-"

But of course, Elita-one interrupted as well. "-Yeah! He's the one who caused this!"

"Yet he was under your unit, under your command. You are responsible for those within your unit." Darkwing said with no mercy. "You will be moved to Waste Management." He commanded as he then prompted for her to leave.

Elita-one's face fell from determined to one of loss as she then turned around and began to leave.

"Elita-" Orion tried to call for her but instead received a look that he knew meant to leave her alone, so he backed down and turned to Darkwing.